New Nail Polish Tests Your Drinks for Roofies

Undercover Color changes color if there's a drug in your drink.

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Cosmo Frank

Aug 25, 2014

A group of students at North Carolina State University have created a nail polish, called Undercover Colors, that changes color when exposed to date rape drugs. They hope to have the product on shelves soon [via WKRB.

Women wearing the nail polish can casually stir a suspicious drink with their finger and, if GHB, Xanax, or Rohypnol (the most common date-rape drugs) are present, the polish will change. Granted, it's still a matter of sticking your finger in your drink, but it's a much more innocuous way to stay safe that won't involve posting up at the bar with a CSI drug kit.

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Stephan Gray, Tyler Confrey-Maloney, Tasso Von Windheim, and Ankesh Madan, the students behind the invention, have received over $250,000 from investors so far, and recently won the North Carolina State Entrepreneurship Initiative. The product is still being tested, but if you'd like to donate to the cause you can do so right here.